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originally posted in: An Honest Opinion about Fallout 4
11/16/2015 11:16:55 PM
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•The gunplay -It's most notable in 1st person, but often times it looked like I shot the enemy but the shots didn't register. This happens most often when using Iron Sights on weapons, nonetheless, it's a problem that's gotten me killed a lot, not to mention ammo is pretty scarce when you don't have a lot of money. [b]While it does seem slightly clunky to me too, I have shot guns, and not every shot that looks good will hit. Its pretty realistic to me.[/b] •Some things aren't spelled out -When you're game is expansive, huge, and just overall complex, players who are new to the series will be a little confused on how some things work. I wasn't aware of the currency until far into the game. Nor did I quite understand how to barter until too far into the game. [b]The game is better without super-convenient tutorials. You woke up from a 200 year cryo-sleep in a nuclear wasteland, why would you expect someone super helpful to be right there to explain everything? Its part of fallout to have to learn things on your own.[/b] •Melee weapons seem underpowered -It could be just me, but when I ran out of ammo and all I had was a knife, machete or baseball bat, I was pretty much dead. Think they may need a damage increase or someone tell me how to use them. [b]People in reality dont die from 2 hits of a baseball bat. People in fallout wear armor too.[/b] •Enemies seem too strong (on normal) -For example, when I faced the mob like enemies with Submachine guns, they did more damage than me even though I was shooting them with the same gun. This shouldn't be the case on [i]normal[/i]. I understand why something like the mutant bear is strong, after all it is a bear (man did that thing take some hits) and deathclaws, I found out very quickly why they are called deathclaws. But even the Ghouls seem too strong since they are fast, strong and eat a lot more bullets than I think they should on [i]normal[/i]. I am shooting them with [b]bullets[/b], in the head, they should drop quicker just by common sense. This is just something I noticed. [b]Sounds like you should play on easy buddy. Better yet, play call of duty. This is fallout, enemies are tough. Its just part of the game.[/b] •Easy, Normal, Hard and Very hard (And survival) -This is simply a pet peeve I have about difficulties in gaming. For a game with such high praise, I was disappointed to see that enemies did nothing [i]strategically[/i] different. Again, this isn't limited to this game but it's a pet peeve of mine. Save for survival mode, the only difference I noticed in combat was that I had less health and they had more. I would have loved to see something like more Ghouls In a pack, Enemies performing flanking maneuvers or wildlife having new abilities that make them more dangerous without increasing health. I hated it in Destiny and I hate it now. [b]Damn dude, how much can you expect from one game? Its not the year 2068, games have limits. Not to mention enemies do everything they can already. This is such a stupid complaint. I can agree with the more enemies part though. Id love to see more ghouls in a pack on harder difficulties.[/b] •The glitches -The game seems to threaten to crash every so often, thankfully never does though. But there are some pretty outstanding glitches in the game and the frames do seem to slow down every so often especially when entering new areas. [b]Theres a lot of stuff going on, and a lot of items in the world. What do you expect? Go play an empty game if you have a big issue with frame rate drops and glitches.[/b] •The graphics -They aren't terrible, but definitely not up to par with "current gen" expectations. There are some moments where things look really good and there are some things that look god-awful. The engine looks like it could pass as a last gen game in terms of graphics. It wasn't so bad that I minded but it was worth taking note. [b]Go play an empty game. This game is content over graphics. I seriously hate how people judge a games graphics, especially fallouts graphics. Its a game, its for playing, not the way it looks.[/b] •No co-op -This isn't a problem, more like a suggestion. The game [i]screams[/i] to be co-op and maybe die hard Fallout fans will disagree because it's different than what they're used to, but the game would benefit from some kind of Co-Op. [b]Id like some coop too, not going to lie.[/b]
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  • [quote][b]The game is better without super-convenient tutorials. You woke up from a 200 year cryo-sleep in a nuclear wasteland, why would you expect someone super helpful to be right there to explain everything? Its part of fallout to have to learn things on your own.[/b][/quote] Learning things on your own is one thing, but not even telling me their is a currency in the game is outlandish. Codsworth, the Minutemen, [i]someone[/i] can let me know how to do some of these things. I still don't quite know how to mod my weapons appropriately because their is no intro to it. Hell, if I didn't read another review on it, I wouldn't even know it was in the game. Finding things out on your own is one thing, but fundamental things like throwing grenades, bartering, or even the currency [i]should[/i] be spelled out for you. Not everyone is a diehard fallout fan. [quote][b]People in reality dont die from 2 hits of a baseball bat. People in fallout wear armor too.[/b][/quote] If I hit you in the head with a baseball bat, you [i]will die[/i], I garuntee it. Even if it doesn't kill you, you [i]will[/i] stop moving. And similarly, not many of the enemies I've faced seem to have a substantial amount of armor that something like a machete shouldn't be able to claw through in a couple of slices. [quote][b]Sounds like you should play on easy buddy. Better yet, play call of duty. This is fallout, enemies are tough. Its just part of the game.[/b][/quote] What the original comment was referring to was that common logic would dictate that, again by logic, enemies should be easier but are not for the sake of difficulty on a setting that is presumably the equilibrium of difficulties. It's hard to argue that on [i]normal[/i], the enemy with the same gun that I have does more damage than me and it's hard to find a reason why. Normal is suppose to be that, normal. Normal logic dictates that a shotgun to the face at point blank range should be more than enough to kill a mutant Dog, yet it isn't. I doubt that Dog mutated into diamond fur, so why doesn't he die on [i]normal[/i]? I see this logic on hard, where its suppose to release the realm of logic and enemies are suppose to be harder, but on normal, it seems unnecessarily hard. [quote][b]Damn dude, how much can you expect from one game? Its not the year 2068, games have limits. Not to mention enemies do everything they can already. This is such a stupid complaint. I can agree with the more enemies part though. Id love to see more ghouls in a pack on harder difficulties.[/b][/quote] I find everything I just said in the realm of reason. I'm sorry you beloved game fell into the difficulties trap where the word "Hard" just means they took some of your health and gave it to the enemy. Games like Halo have exceptional hard modes in which the enemy isn't just more of a sponge. [quote][b]Theres a lot of stuff going on, and a lot of items in the world. What do you expect? Go play an empty game if you have a big issue with frame rate drops and glitches.[/b][/quote] You are a fallout fan. You love fallout. That is the [i]only[/i] way you could make a comment like this. I would just say that "it has a lot of moving parts, I can live with occasional flying mutant bears" but when I look at games like The Witcher 3 and GTA 5 and even Skyrim with worlds as big as this one, they don't have as many glitches. Infact, I don't think I've ran into one glitch in GTA 5 yet. So I expect there to be less glitches than there are. [quote][b]Go play an empty game. This game is content over graphics. I seriously hate how people judge a games graphics, especially fallouts graphics. Its a game, its for playing, not the way it looks.[/b][/quote] Again, Fallout Fanboyism. You didn't even try to refute that the graphics aren't up to par. And I will point most notably at GTA 5. It looks beautiful without a drop in frame and I ask you why does Fallout have to look like it does when the technology is there to make the graphics better.

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  • Poor engine that's why lol the thing with fallout is it has so much content, that you get through what feels like a tonne of walking, shooting, quests, discovery and building. That when the odd glitch finally does occur it's like a rain drop in the ocean. You can forgive it. When it happens in a game like Destiny it's more like a rain drop in a fish bowl. It's more noticeable. That's the way I feel about it. It's the same with Skyrim, even Witcher 3 has glitches when you get to the big cities but it's forgivable because the game is so expansive and it's a rare occurrence in a huge world.

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